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Carpenders Park Community Hall

Station Footpath

Gibbs Couch

Watford, Herts WD19 5EG

The Spring Workshop in 2018 is the beautiful

'Marie Antoinette Necklet' taught by Melanie de Miguel.

The elements to create this lovely necklet include quatrefoil crystal suspended in V formations all suspended frome a delicate beaded circlet with pearls and crystals.

Student will learn new techniques to trap little rivolies in the elements.

The new Double Hubble stitch will be taught. This stitch can be adapted to make other components.

Skill level experianced to advanced

Techniques. Hubble stitch. It is important to have some working experiance of this stitch and Peyote.

Materials List.

15x Swarovski ss29 (6.23mm), Rivoli (#1122) or chatons (#1088 or #1028)

50 x Swarovski 3mm Bicones.

200 x 2-2.5mm Freashwater seed pearls

OR 2mmCzech Pearls

OR 2g Miyuki size 11 seed beads (Ceylon Pearly Finish)

8g x Miyuki size 15 seed beads.

2g x size 15 czech Charlotte seed beads( to match Miyuki size 15s)

1 x small toggle clasp

Clear Nail Polish ( to protect the back of the crystals)

scissors.

4lb Fireline in Smoke or Crystal.

Needles size 12 and 14

Small blob of blue tack

If you would like to book a place on Melanie's workshop please contact Carole, details on page 2 of the journal.

AGM Weekend

7th -8th July 2018.

FREE TO MEMBERS

Heather Kingsley-Heath

Workshop Sat 7th July 2018 10.30-4.30

School Room, Bristol Museumn & Art Gallery

Queens Rd Bristol.

BS8 1RL

Heather has kindley accepted our invitation to do a workshop for us taking her inspiration from the collections of this museum.

Heather says 'Bristol museum is a treasure trove: the Egyptian collection is full of jewel like treasures.

Tucked away in a corner is my favourite section, the Hull Grundy Jewellery collectiondisplay case, filled with unique and unusual trinkets.

Combining ideas from these two areas of the museum, my workshop is a traveller's adventure. Winged scarabs, stitchery and lots of possable combinations. Join me to bring to life your own amulet of inspiration.

This workshop is suitable for all skill levels and combines bead embroidery and beadwork techniques. All materials will be available on the day at a modest cost.'

If you would like to book a place on Heather's workshop, please contact Carole ( email,phone or post) details on p2 of the Jounal or on the Contacts page on the website.

More details to follow.

Materials list

15g Size 11 seed beads colour 1 (metallic)

5g size 11 seed beads colour 2

5g size 11 seed beads colour 3

3g size 11 seed beads colour 4 (optioanl)

5g size 15 seed beads colour 1

5g size 15 seed beads colour 2 or 3

12 3mm diameter glass pearl beads or similar

3g size 8 Miyuki or Toho demi bead

15-20 Czechmate Quadritile (flat square bead with 4 holes).

36 Miuki Half Tila two hole beads.

10x10cm piece bead embroidery foundation: (Black or dark colour)

10x10cm piece ultrasuede or glove leather

Please also bring:

Beading needles

Beading thread (a softer thread is more suitable than fireline)

AGM & Viewing of beads and beadwork

in the displays and reserve collections

at the

Bristol Museum

Our AGM will be at the Bristol Museum in the morning, in the afternoon we have arranged for members to see items

in the reserve collection(and Gallery Displays) including the

Hull Grundy Collection.

Bristol has built up a major collection of costume over the years ( stored at Blaise Castle House Museum) but never gathered appropriate jewllery to go with it.. Learning of this lack Mrs Hull Grundy put together and presented to the museum more than 400 peices spanning the period c.1800-1950, with emphasis upon the later 19th and 20th centuries.

The collection is notable for the unusual series of pieces made or at least decorated in Japan and exported to Western Europe, especially Britain, in the 1920's. The late 19th century brooches and necklets made of Whitby jet and of Irish bog oak are very fine; and most other classes of costume jewellery of this broad period are well represented.

Please bring any bead or bead related items you have for display on our 'Show and Tell tables.

The Timetable for the day.

10.30 -11.00 Arrive at the museum, set up 'Show and Tell' , meet old friends (make new ones) Tea Coffee.

11.00 -12.30 AGM and 'Show & Tell'

12.00 -2.00 Lunch.

2.00 - 4.30 Looking at the beads and bead related items from the reserve collection and display cases.

Casual Kokoshnik

Bursery Workshop

Wed & Thurs 25th-26th July 2018

Manderville Hall, Reach Rd, Burwell, Cambs CB25 0AR

AND

Fri & Sat 27th -28th July 2018

St James Village Hall, Barton-under Needwood, Staffs

10.30 - 4.30pm.

July 2018 brings us the Russian embroiderer Olga Martynova who has developed a new style of casual kokoshnik (Kokoshnik is the Russian Headdress). The project has evolved into a very wearable, almost every day peice.

The main feature of kokoshnik is the construction. Embroidery on a special steel frame which does not lie on the thead but stands up like a tiara.

Olga Will show how to make a kokoshnik that needs no other fasteners. just sits on the head thanks to the steel base inside.

At each 2 day workshop Olga will teach:

the stages of work
constructioning the kokoshnik pattern ( the best way to get symmetry)
embroidery of an ornament, fixing cabochons, elementsof the national Russian embroidery -sazhenie po beli- using rope and beads.
mounting of the embroidery and the reverse side on the kokoshnik and the edge decoration.

If you would like to book a place on this class please get intouch with Carole in the usual way . Places are very limited and are free to members.

Note The back of this piece is natural leather, if you cannot use this please advise Carole when you book

Members can choose whether to have (1), (2) or (3) but they must purchase a minimum of (1) as these are special to the workshop. Tuition all free to members, of course.

Material Kits:
1. Get from Olga:
- Steel frame + felt will be provided to everyone - £6

2. Base material kit:
- Steel frame + felt + leather + cloth + twine — £13

3. Full material kit:
- Full set for kokoshnik on the picture — light or dark version — £35

Cabochons:
- 1 x central gemstone oval or rectangular shape max size 23/13 mm
- 4 x gemstones exact size 14x10mm (could be two in one color and two in other color)
- 2 x Swarovski 4120 oval fancy stone
- 6x sew on setting for swarovski 4120 14x10mm

Beads:
- 25 x pearls rice shape extra mini size of 2-3mm
- 8 x pearls rice or nugget shape 10mm
- 10 x Czech fire-polished beads 4mm

Seed Beads:
- 5g xToho triangle 11/0 - dark matt
- 5g xToho round 11/0 - same color as triangle
- 5g xToho roung 11/0 - transparent rainbow (contrast to previous)
- 1g xToho round 15/0 - matt
- 1g xToho round 15/0 - opaque lustered
- 1g xToho round 15/0 - transparent rainbow
(All three matching to cabochons)

Other materials:
- 200x400mm - Linen cloth
- 200x400mm - natural leather
- 10yd x twine (rope?) gray or milk color

Also needed:
- needles size 12 + size 10
- threаds dark and light color + coloreless line
- scissors
- one-component glue